Saturday, July 30, 2016

American Skydiver Becomes The First To Jump 25,000 Feet Into A Net - Without A Parachute

* Aikins jumped 25,000 into a net Saturday evening in Simi Valley, California
* Found out he had to wear a parachute just hours before - but did not use it
* The skydiver, 42, has done more than 18,000 jumps and stunts in Ironman 3
* His four-year-old son and his wife both watched his record-breaking jump

An American skydiver has become the first of his trade to jump 25,000 feet into a net - without a parachute.

He hit the 100-by-100-foot net perfectly, quickly climbed out of it and walked over to hug his wife, who had been watching with other family members.

Just before climbing into a plane to make the jump, Aikins said he had been ordered to wear a parachute but indicated he wouldn't open it. Read more....

WNU Editor: I know that this is not a war/defense/intelligence news story .... but I had to post it. I was in my mid-thirties when I did my first (and only) parachute jump. After the jump .....I said to myself that it makes no sense to jump out of a perfectly functioning air-plane ....and I vowed to never do it again. But the story ..... and doing a 25,000 jump without parachute .... I am at a lost of words to even comment on it.

It was a tandem jump (I guess that is what you mean by a paired free fall). But I was super-lucky. There were a lot of people that day, and somehow I got stuck with an attractive lady instructor. But it was only after the jump that I realised that she was a good looking babe. :)

With a parapent, up until shortly after you get off the ground, it's an adrenaline rush,.........

After that it's like flying a slow "nerf" glider, with out the cockpit, not much of a rush at all, except for the view.

Only time it was ever "scary" for me, was 3/4's of the way down from Edgemont Glacier, when coming into the Green River flood plain, I ran into a flock of geese, and the parapent was too slow in turning for me to avoid them,

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I have been involved in numerous computer science projects since the 1980s, as well as developing numerous web projects since 1996.
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